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CUNY’s Second Annual Global Film Series on Women’s Human Rights will bring together amazing films, filmmakers, prominent journalists and activists to discuss the often-abysmal state of women’s rights throughout the world. This three-day event will include panel discussions with filmmakers, journalists, activists and scholars such as Oriana Zill, Maggie Betts and Marina Goldovskaya. All events are free and open to the public.

We have found that the immediacy of film and the images of women who have suffered and triumphed is an effective way to maintain and spread conversations and spark reporting so vital in keeping the focus on troubling issues like sexual violence, forced marriage, denial of rights of employment and education, “honor killings” and sexual slavery. We hope to foster news and action.

The three-day festival will feature films from Tanzania, Nepal, Kenya, Afghanistan, Zambia, Colombia, Russia and the Western Sahara where women are subject to such chronic problems as poor maternal care, sex trafficking, honor killings, child marriage, rape as a weapon of war and genital mutilation. The series will also explore the intersection of journalism, documentary film and activism.

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SCHEDULE: CUNY SECOND ANNUAL GLOBAL FILM SERIES

THURSDAY, MARCH 29:
CUNY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM
219 W. 40th Street, Third Floor, New York, NY
(between 7th and 8th Avenue)
11:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
The series kicks off Thursday, March 29, at 11 a.m. at CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism. 219 W. 40th, with a series of films, including a presentation at 4 p.m. to New York City High School Students, sponsored by the Harnisch Collaborative Future of Journalism Projects.

AT DCTV
87 Lafayette Street
7:00 p.m. RECEPTION

7:30 p.m. LAS ABUELAS DE PLAZA DE MAYO AND THE SEARCH FOR IDENTITY produced by Dr. C.A. Tuggle

8:30 p.m. - 9 p.m. Interview with Dr. C.A. Tuggle, professor and director of the journalism program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

FRIDAY, MARCH 30: CCNY
Grover Engineering School
160 Convent Avenue
6:00 p.m. - 8:45 p.m.
This year the series is expanding to other CUNY campuses with a Friday event at City College featuring “The War We Are Living,” which chronicles the efforts of two Afro-Colombian women who are fighting to stop the government from permitting prospectors to take over their gold-rich traditional lands. The program at CCNY’s Steinman Hall will begin with a reception sponsored by the Chancellor’s Office at 6 p.m., the film and a panel discussion. The producer Oriana Zill, of Women War & Peace, is scheduled to appear, along with Afro-Latina activists. Linda Villarosa, director of CCNY’s Journalism program, will moderate.

SATURDAY, MARCH 31:
CUNY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM
219 W. 40th Street, Third Floor, New York, NY
(between 7th and 8th Avenue)
1:30 p.m. - 9 p.m.
An all-day program will include a presentation of short films and panelists from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, one our original partners.